Poems that make grown men cry : 100 men on the words that move them / edited by Anthony and Ben Holden.

Elegy / by Chidiock Tichborne / David McVicar
Sonnet XXX / by William Shakespeare / Melvyn Bragg
On my first son / by Ben Jonson / John Carey
Amor constante más allá de la muerte / by Francisco de Quevedo / Ariel Dorfman and Javier Marías
Hokku / by Fukuda Chiyo-ni / Boris Akunin
Wandrers Nachtlied II / by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / John Le Carré
Frost at midnight / by Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Sebastian Faulks
Character of the happy warrior / by William Wordsworth / Harold Evans
Surprised by joy / by William Wordsworth / Howard Jacobson
Last sonnet / by John Keats / Kenneth Lonergan
Extract from The Masque of Anarchy / by Percy Bysshe Shelley / David Edgar
I Am / by John Clare / Ken Loach
Of the terrible doubt of appearances / by Walt Whitman / Stephen Fry
Remember / by Christina Rossetti / Robert Fisk and Julian Fellowes
After great pain / by Emily Dickinson / Douglas Kennedy
Extract from Peer Gynt / by Henrik Ibsen / Kenneth Branagh
Requiem / by Robert Louis Stevenson / Christopher Buckley
The remorseful day / by A.E. Housman / Joe Klein
The wind, one brilliant day / by Antonio Machado / Robert Bly
Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes / by Rainer Maria Rilke / Colm Tóibín
Ithaka / by Constantine P. Cavafy / Walter Salles
At Castle Boterel / by Thomas Hardy / Alan Hollinghurst
The voice / by Thomas Hardy / Seamus Heaney
Adlestrop / by Edward Thomas / Simon Winchester
The soldier / by Rupert Brooke / Hugh Bonneville
During wind and rain / by Thomas Hardy / Ken Follett
Dulce et decorum est / by Wilfred Owen / Christopher Hitchens
God's world / by Edna St. Vincent Millay / Patrick Stewart
Everyone sang / by Siegfried Sassoon / Barry Humphries
Last poems: XL / by A.E. Housman / Andrew Motion and Richard Dawkins
God wills it / by Gabriela Mistral / Jeremy Irons
Out of work / by Kenneth H. Ashley / Felix Dennis
All the pretty horses / by Anonymous / Carl Bernstein
The cool web / by Robert Graves / John Sutherland
The broken tower / by Hart Crane / Harold Bloom
Bavarian gentians / by D.H. Lawrence / Simon Armitage
A summer night / by W.H. Auden / William Boyd
Those who are near me do not know / by Rabindranath Tagore / Chris Cooper
Let my country awake / by Rabindranath Tagore / Salil Shetty and David Puttnam
Extract from Finnegans Wake / by James Joyce / James McManus
In memory of W.B. Yeats / by W.H. Auden / Salman Rushdie
Lullaby / by W.H. Auden / Simon Schama and Simon Callow
If I could tell you / by W.H. Auden / Alexander McCall Smith
Canoe / by Keith Douglas / Clive James
My Papa's waltz / by Theodore Roethke / Stanley Tucci
The book burnings / by Bertolt Brecht / Jack Mapanje
Liberté / by Paul Éluard / Joe Wright
Extract from The Pisan cantos / by Ezra Pound / Craig Raine.

I see a girl dragged by the wrists / by Philip Larkin / Simon Russell Beale
The mother / by Gwendolyn Brooks / Terrance Hayes
The death of the ball turret gunner / by Randall Jarrell / Paul Muldoon
War has been brought into disrepute / by Bertolt Brecht / David Hare
Le message / by Jacques Prévert / Peter Sís
Do not go gentle into that good night / by Dylan Thomas / Benjamin Zephaniah
Unfinished poem / by Philip Larkin / Frank Kermode
Over 2,000 illustrations and a complete concordance / by Elizabeth Bishop / John Ashbery
End of summer / by Stanley Kunitz / Nicholson Baker
The horses / by Edwin Muir / Alexei Sayle
Friday's child / by W.H. Auden / Rowan Williams
Long distance I and II / by Tony Harrison / Daniel Radcliffe
The widower in the country / by Les Murray / Nick Cave
A blessing / by James Arlington Wright / Richard Ford
Injustice / by Pablo Neruda / Carlos Reyes-Manzo
The meaning of Africa / by Abioseh Nicol / James Earl Jones
Elegy for Alto / by Christopher Okigbo / Ben Okri
Requiem for the croppies / by Seamus Heaney / Terry George
Gone ladies / by Christopher Logue / Brian Patten
Dream song 90: Op. posth. no. 13 / by John Berryman / Al Alvarez
Essay / by Hayden Carruth / Jonathan Franzen
An exequy / by Peter Porter / Ian McEwan
Crusoe in England / by Elizabeth Bishop / Andrew Solomon
For Julia, in the deep water / by John N. Morris / Tobias Wolff
Aubade / by Philip Larkin / William Sieghart
Dear Bryan Wynter / by W.S. Graham / Nick Laird
A meeting / by Wendell Berry / Colum McCann
eulogy to a hell of a dame
- / by Charles Bukowski / Mike Leigh
Midsummer: Sonnet XLIII / by Derek Walcott / Mark Haddon
In Blackwater Woods / by Mary Oliver / Marc Forster
Love after love / by Derek Walcott / Tom Hiddleston
Extract from and our faces, my heart, brief as photos / by John Berger / Simon McBurney
Sandra's Mobile / by Douglas Dunn / Richard Eyre
Brindis con el Viejo / by Mauricio Rosencof / Juan Méndez
An end or a beginning / by Bei Dao / Wuer Kaixi
A call / by Seamus Heaney / Richard Curtis
Extract from Eastern War Time / by Adrienne Rich / Anish Kapoor
It is here (for A) / by Harold Pinter / Neil LaBute
For Andrew Wood / by James Fenton / David Remnick
Not cancelled yet / by John Updike / Joseph O'Neill
Armada / by Brian Patten / Paul Bettany
A poetry reading at West Point / by William Matthews / Tom McCarthy
Bedecked / by Victoria Redel / Billy Collins
The lanyard / by Billy Collins / J.J. Abrams
Regarding the home of one's childhood, one could: / by Emily Zinnemann / Colin Firth
For Ruthie Rogers in Venice / by Craig Raine / Richard Rogers
Keys to the doors / by Robin Robertson / Mohsin Hamid
Afterword / Nadine Gordimer.